Description

Butt doors are left and right cabinet door installed on a single cabinet without the use of a center mullion. The doors when closed almost touch each other. Without a center mullion there is easier access to the interior of the cabinet.

A term used when the edges of two pieces of wood are joined together without the use of any interlocking method of wood joinery.

A fastener specifically designed for use with panel materials that do not securely accept screws being driven into end grains. These can and dowel or cam and bolt connectors provide an exceptionally strong connection between adjacent pieces of material that intersect at right angles.

A term used to describe the box that is created to act as a cabinet once the doors and/or drawers are installed. It may or may not have a back.

Cathedral Door: A style of cabinet door with modified arch as the door panel decoration.

A two door cabinet that has a vertical piece of lumber that is placed in a position to allow the open edges of the door to close over it, providing no visual access to the interior of the cabinet. It usually divides a cabinet opening equally. This piece of lumber may also be called a mullion.

When a hinge is built in two pieces, one piece that mounts on the cabinet and another piece that mounts on the door the two pieces are known as clip-on hinge plates. This is because they clip together to form the complete functioning hinge.

Kitchen Cabinet Hinges

This refers to wood species that have very tight annual rings. Close grain wood accepts staining extremely well and does not splinter. Popular close grain woods are: Basswood, Boxwood, Douglas fir, Sitka Spruce, Maple, Alder and Italian Walnut.

Closed or sound knots are allowed in No. 1 Common grade lumber, the most popular lumber grade for kitchen cabinets.